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This is my experience with Discover Weekly as well. Everyone seems to be really divided on how well their algorithms work, they either work really well or terr
by KallDrexx 9y ago
This is my experience with Discover Weekly as well. Everyone seems to be really divided on how well their algorithms work, they either work really well or terribly. I think it's because the quality of signals their algorithm can key off of is so limited due to it being such a passive medium.
There's no way to know if I listened to that track in full because I liked it or because I had it on in the background while doing other work and it wasn't distracting enough (usually the latter is the case for me). Furthermore if I skip a track they don't know if I skipped it because I didn't like it or I wasn't in the mood for that style of music, or I was just sick of that song cause I've heard it enough in the past X listens.
There's no way to easily signal to spotify why I'm taking an action, and yet their algorithms are trying to make assumptions over every little action.
- pertsix 9y agoAdd songs to your library. It's given more weight than simple up-thumb/down-thumb.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoThat may be why my recommendations seem to work so well, unlike a lot of other commenters on this article. For posterity, I have a little under 1000 tracks saved from 200 or so artists (of which I am following around half), around 50 favorite album playlists and about as many "I should give this album a listen" playlists. So not really a huge collection in absolute terms. It is very much focused on hard rock and metal, though.